Long-term evolution of objects in the Kuiper Belt zone - Effects of insolation and radiogenic heating

Icarus

Volumn 160, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 300-312

  Choi, Young Jun ^a   Cohen, Merav ^a   Merk, Rainer ^a   Prialnik, Dina ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Comets; Comets, composition; Ices; Kuiper Belt objects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036953684     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2002.6976     Document Type: Article

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